Sentinel Northglenn 8-22-2013
Northglenn -Thornton
August 22, 2013
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Adams County, Colorado • Volume 50, Issue 2
Cabela’s opens: Store part of larger retail chain Thornton store held grand opening Aug. 15 By Tammy Kranz
tkranz@ourcoloradonews.com The international outdoor outfitter and retailer Cabela’s opened the doors of its Thornton store on Aug. 15. “We’re very excited in Thornton to get Cabela’s open for the public,” said Thornton Mayor Heidi Williams. “We know Cabela’s is a great anchor store for The Grove, and we anticipate it being a draw for customers from throughout the Front Range and even from neighboring states.” The store serves as an anchor at the 63-acre retail development called The Grove, at the southeast corner of 144th Avenue and I-25. The Grove is projected to have
290,000 square feet of hospitality and retail space in addition to Cabela’s 90,000-square-foot store. The development is being led by St. Louis-based real estate developer THF Realty. “This will really change Thornton and this whole region,” said THF Realty cofounder Michael Staenberg in October when the store broke ground. “Cabela’s will draw people from 50 to 100 miles away and bring people who haven’t come to Thornton.” Cabela’s also held the grand opening last week for its Lone Tree location. The store already has a site in Grand Junction. In addition to thousands of outdoor products, Cabela’s features a gabled entry façade, fireplace, Gun Library, Bargain Cave, Fudge Shop, and a mountain replica with North American game animals re-created in their natural habitat.
Cabela’s held its grand opening Aug. 15 at its new retail store at The Grove, 144th avenue and Interstate 25, in Thornton. Thousands of people flocked to the store over the weekend, and hundreds showed up the evening before as this photo shows. Photo by Tammy Kranz
Exhibit shares book burning history of Nazi Germany Opening reception features a story of survival
‘To keep a happier life, we need to know
By Ashley Reimers
life can be difficult, and
areimers@ourcoloradonews.com People poured into the reading room at Anythink Wright Farms in Thornton Aug. 15 in anticipation of learning about a piece of history. By 7 p.m., men, women and children sat quietly as Walter Plywaski began his story of survival during the Holocaust. It was 1939, and Plywaski was just 10 years old when he was placed in the ghetto in Lodz, Poland. That was just the beginning of years spent fighting disease, starvation, overcrowding and the loss of family members. His mother was killed in a gas chamber and his father was beaten to death. As the Boulder resident shared his story, he also shared his emotions about the inhumane treatment received by those in the ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Dachau. “To keep a happier life, we need to know life can be difficult, and compare those times to the happier times,” he said. “These horrible things were being done to human beings by human beings — inhumane things.” Plywaski spoke about German police officers laughing as they beat a Jewish person, or the time when he nearly stumbled over the dead body of a friend in the streets of the ghetto. He said his survival in the ghetto and the concentration camps came from “being very lucky and very tough and, at times, even brutal.” “To me, the ghetto was worse than the concentration camp because I still had friends and family in the ghetto, and I watched as mothers saw their children die,” he said. In 1945, Plywaski and his brother Bill POSTAL ADDRESS
compare those times to the happier times.’ -Walter Plywaski
Holocaust survivor Walter Plywaski is greeted by people Aug. 15 at Anythink Wright Farms in Thornton after presenting his story of survival. Plywaski’s presentation was part of the opening reception of a new exhibit at the library, “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”. Photo by Ashley Reimers escaped the concentration camp after aerial assaults caused an electric shortage on an electrified barbed fence. The two boys were able to crawl through the fence. A short time later, Plywaski said, they were picked up by an American infantry patrol and became American mascots.
Now Plywaski shares his story at various schools and organizations. His presentation at Anythink Wright Farms was part of the opening reception for a new exhibit at the library, “Fighting the Fires of Hate: American and the Nazi Book Burnings.”
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The traveling exhibit is produced by the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., and is a comprehensive examination of the Nazi book burnings in 1933. The Nazis burned 25,000 volumes of books in cities throughout Germany as part of a symbolic act of censorship. The exhibit features free-standing graphic panels with reproductions of photographs, newspapers, posters, documents and books, as well as audio-visual components with historic film footage. “This exhibit is a reminder of how fragile our freedom is, and it takes people to have courage to protect those freedoms,” said Anythink director Pam Smith. “This is much more than an exhibit; it gets people to think about what is important in their lives.” The exhibit will run until Sept. 28, and the library will host interactive programs focusing on censorship, including a panel discussion with a variety of people from different backgrounds and careers. “Providing opportunities to understand our past is just one key role of libraries,” Smith said. “We hope our community will participate in this important conversation.”
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